28 MARCH 1947, Page 5

"' We are dying in peace, innocent as we are.

We shall all appear at the Judgment Seat one day. We believe that the Merciful Father, who rules everything in truth, will sooner or later prove our innocence.'

Opoku Afwenee, former Army sergeant, wrote these words on the back of an old copy of the Spectator as he waited with his companions to be hanged for the Ju-Ju ' murders.

Opoku Afwenee is one of the two ' Ju-Ju ' men still alive." Evening News. A strange and rather moving link between the condemned cell at Accra and Gower Street. I cannot help hoping (though I have never held that there was a miscarriage of justice in this case) that Opoku Afwenee will live to read many more Spectators yet.

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